Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Next Generation eBookstore

It doesn’t
exist (yet?). But, this is what I would like to see in terms of a physical,
electronic bookstore. I think it’s important that a physical place exists where
readers can come together to look over books. Perhaps this will be the future
of libraries as well. Instead of rows of shelves of physical books, there would
be rows of shelves holding digital displays for each author. The display would
flash through the book cover of each author’s work, cycling its way around with
interactivity to allow for searching or faster cycling.

Patrons
could wander through and see the books on the shelves, able to browse authors
nearby, and still preserve the feeling of a bookstore, even if the books
themselves are ephemeral files on an electronic device.